The Ten Commandments
by Thomas Watson does not sound like an exciting read but I have rarely read a
better work. Watson is a profound thinker and writer. I was so impressed with
his introduction that I read it twice (sometimes I skip them altogether!) If you enjoy J.C. Ryle you will appreciate
Watson. In addition to being profound, he is lively, systematic, pithy, and
practical. I found very little that did
not stir my thinking and affections.
I did not agree with everything he says in this book
(admittedly, that may be my problem rather than his!) I found one or two of his
ideas on the observance of the Sabbath to be extreme - if I grasped what he was
saying. Understanding baptism as I do, I felt his arguments for infant baptism
displayed such a lack of logic that if I had read that section first I probably
would have not been inclined to read the rest of the book. For that reason
alone I am glad I read the introduction first! Watson is great reading!
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